From the books I read in our last years at Lokunja, I’d come to believe that if we could design a democratic government, just as is the case in America, our country would be a wonderful place to live in. But now that I live here I’m realizing that something far more complex is going on all over the world, something that binds us to these beset Americans and others like us in villages and town and cities in nations big and small. Whatever it is, we’ll figure it all out, and nothing will be the same after we do.

